The First Prog Punk Band?

tszirmay wrote: Listen to Roxy Music's debut and  'Remake/Remodel' with its rather aggressive lyrics, including "I can talk, talk, talk myself to death", we are talking 1972 !  Then try "Editions of You" off the "For Your Pleasure" album. Late 1972 !  rest my case!

Seconded. "Do The Strand" is another classic example. "The Thrill of It All" also kind of follows suit.

Edited by Dayvenkirq - March 05 2013 at 00:07

Either The Residents were the first Prog Punk Band with the Album Fingerprince or Univers Zero with 1313 or maybe even Throbbing Gristle.

The Who?

I'd probably say Faust - IV. 

I would say Penetration, they formed in 1976, were part of the punk scene. Their album "Moving Targets" which came out in 1978 has lots of progressive elements, some of the songs are basically metal too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxdBB2pKgEA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i5_ScLoI2w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLvRewk7kGQ
also the song "Reunion", not on youtube but whole album is like this



Chron Gen's "Nowhere to Run" EP is also very proggy, I have a hard time considering it punk, but they were very much a part of the punk scene. Maybe a bit AOR sounding at times.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWozk_XieJ8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fmFbRvF2eE



Also, Youth Brigade (the California band) has some progressive elements, listen to the guitar work. Great vocals and intelligent lyrics too. They were way ahead of their time with a hip hop song on their album in the early 1980s. Maybe more punky than prog, but great band.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zb9VSGTjShI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6BuoXNGbMg






Edited by Mirkwood - March 14 2013 at 07:36

Punk was progressive from day one. Progressive Rock stayed fairly stagnant for a decade which is why it fizzled out.

Whereas Punk has continued to evolve from it's simplistic beginnings in the Sex Pistols, Ramones etc. into Hardcore in the 80s and dozens of Hardcore influenced genres from Grindcore to Thrash metal to Mathcore, Metalcore, Screamo, skapunk, Post-Hardcore. Dozens of progressive bands and movements that can be traced back to the original punk movement.

Punk is the real prog when you think about it...


Edited by topographicbroadways - March 14 2013 at 06:37

I guess there's a lot of similarities with punk and Krautrock - even in the early days, but the artist I personally think was the first to sound like a proper punk band doing prog, was Daevid Allen's Floating Anarchy. Here & Now, who was his band for that gig then made their debut afterwards, which I feel is the best example of the two genres meshing together:

Guldbamsen wrote: I guess there's a lot of similarities with punk and Krautrock - even in the early days, but the artist I personally think was the first to sound like a proper punk band doing prog, was Daevid Allen's Floating Anarchy. Here & Now, who was his band for that gig then made their debut afterwards, which I feel is the best example of the two genres meshing together:

I also suggested them. Their post debut album EPs and the concert It's All Over The Show  is even a better example of their punkish direction. Are you familiar with it David??

^  Exactly! I like it though. One thing I always loved about them is the fact that no matter which direction the band went, the musicians still maintained their spacey/punkish elements.

About that concert video, it's the only video I could find in utube so I posted it. There are far more engaging tracks in that raw live show.

Maybe its The Fall as Mark is a big Can Fan